In 1989, their performance in Zagreb started with the Serbian instrument the gusle and in Belgrade, the NSK philosopher Peter Malkar held a speech as a cynical parody of Slobodan Milošević's speeches in SAP Kosovo.

Modern example of Serbian epics as recorded in 1992 by film director Paweł Pawlikowski in a documentary for the BBC Serbian epics ; an anonymous gusle singer compares Radovan Karadžić, as he prepares to depart for Geneva for peace talk, to Karađorđe, who had led the First Serbian Uprising against the Turks in 1804:

Lord studied not only field recordings of Serbian heroic epics sung to the gusle, and the Homeric epics, but also Beowulf, Gilgamesh, The Song of Roland, and the Anglo-Scottish Child Ballads.

Serbian gusle

The instrument itself is identical, only the design of the neck and head changes ; the Serbian gusle has Serbian motif etc.

There are records of an instrument named gusle ( гоусли ) being played at the court of the 13th-century Serbian King Stefan Nemanjić, but it is not certain whether the term was used in its present-day meaning or it denoted some other kind of string instrument.

In a poem published in 1612, Kasper Miaskowski wrote that " the Serbian gusle and gaidas will overwhelm Shrove Tuesday " ( Serbskie skrzypki i dudy ostatek zagluszą ).

In the idyll named Śpiewacy, published in 1663, Józef Bartłomiej Zimorowic used the phrase " to sing to the Serbian gusle " ( przy Serbskich gęślach śpiewać ).

The gusle has played a significant role in the history of Serbian epic poetry because of its association with the centuries old patriotic oral legacy.

Pušić continued in the same manner on his later releases also making influence on the Serbian hip hop scene with the albums Hoćemo gusle ( 1989 ) and Psihološko propagandni komplet M-91 ( 1991 ).

A result of this has been an increase in the maximum speed on the railway line on the Pan-European Corridor X, from the Slovenian border via Zagreb, Novska, Vinkovci to the Serbian border.

The Serbian Cyrillic alphabet has no diacritics.

This word has often been employed as an epithet in Eastern European legends ( Sabya Damaskinya or Sablja Dimiskija meaning " Damascene saber "), including the Serbian and Bulgarian legends of Prince Marko, a historical figure of the late 14th century in what is currently the Republic of Macedonia.

Language contact between Macedonian and Serbo-Croatian reached its height during Yugoslav times, so much so that the colloquial speech of the city of Skopje has been described as a " creolized form of Serbian " ( cf.

The word has also spread to Turkish as pide, and Bulgarian, Croatian and Serbian as pita, Albanian as pite and Modern Hebrew pittāh.

In modern times, the city has been known by its Ottoman Turkish name Üsküp () during the time of Ottoman rule and by the Serbian form Skoplje ( Скопље ) during the time of the Royal Yugoslavia between 1912 and 1941.

The Serbian form has parallels in virtually all Slavic languages: Bulgarian and Macedonian вампир ( vampir ), Croatian vampir, Czech and Slovak upír, Polish wąpierz, and ( perhaps East Slavic-influenced ) upiór, Ukrainian упир ( upyr < nowiki ></ nowiki >), Russian упырь ( upyr < nowiki >'</ nowiki >), Belarusian упыр ( upyr ), from Old East Slavic упирь ( upir < nowiki >'</ nowiki >).

A Serbian vodka, Balkan 176 °, has a 88 % alcohol content.

* There has been a failure to eliminate parallel structures, insofar as health and education within the Kosovo Serbian community remain dependent on Serbian budgets ;

Serbian Prime Minister Vojislav Koštunica responded by stating, " Today, this policy of force thinks that it has triumphed by establishing a false state.

Most of their remains were buried at sea near the island of Vido, a small island at the mouth of Corfu port, and a monument of thanks to the Greek nation has been erected at Vido by the grateful Serbs ; consequently, the waters around Vido Island are known by the Serbian people as the Blue Graveyard ( in Serbian, Плава Гробница, Plava Grobnica ), after a poem written by Milutin Bojić following World War I.

* The Ukrainian language, in common with Russian, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Macedonian, Slovene and Serbian has simplified the Common Slavic tl and dl into l ( for example, mela – she swept ").

The town has traditionally been known as the seat of Serbian Orthodox Church in the Habsburg Monarchy, as well as political and cultural capital of Serbian Vojvodina after the May Assembly and during the Revolution in 1848.

Serbian Cyrillic was devised in 1814 by Serbian linguist Vuk Karadžić, who created the alphabet on phonemic principles, the Cyrillic itself has its origins in Cyril and Methodius ' transformation of the Greek script in the 9th century.

Red Star is the only Serbian and former Yugoslav club that has won a UEFA competition, winning the 1991 European Cup in Bari, Italy.

Serbian tennis players Novak Đoković, Ana Ivanović, Jelena Janković, Nenad Zimonjić, Janko Tipsarević and Viktor Troicki are very successful and their success has led to a popularisation of tennis in Serbia.

The Serbian Air Force currently operates a total of 3 units and has another 12 on order.

It has been told that Ischinger entered the talks " with only one goal and idea: for Kosovo to become independent in the end, with the Serbian authority's willing consent ".

Although the Serbian government has denied that any of their nationals are currently serving as mercenary soldiers in North Africa, five such men have been captured by anti-Gaddafi rebels in Tripoli and several others have also allegedly fought during the Second Battle of Benghazi.

The South Slavic languages all derive their forms from Old Church Slavonic, with Serbian emerging from Old Serbian ( Serbian-Slavonic ), which has a literary history from the 10th century.

In 1908 ( the affair is known under the name Bombaška afera ) the Serbian nationalists tried to kill the king of Montenegro, because they considered him as an obstacle to the unification of all the Serbs in one state.

Serbia accepted all but one of the demands, to let the Austrian officers conduct an investigation on Serbian soil, which would have compromised its sovereignty.

The first president from 1992 to 1993 was Dobrica Ćosić, a former communist Yugoslav partisan during World War II and later one of the fringe contributors of the controversial Memorandum of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts.

* Serbian whist ( a game in which players try to predict the exact number of tricks they will take, and each round players are dealt one card less.

The Treaty of Passarowitz or Treaty of Požarevac was the peace treaty signed in Požarevac ( Serbian Cyrillic:,, ), a town in Ottoman Empire ( today Serbia ), on 21 July 1718 between the Ottoman Empire on one side and the Habsburg Monarchy of Austria and the Republic of Venice on the other.

The Serbian Empire was established in 1346 by Stephen Dušan the Mighty, during which time Serbia reached its territorial peak, becoming one of the most powerful states in Europe and the most powerful in the Balkans.

Because of the massive loss of life, the Serbian army's retreat through Albania is considered by Serbs to be one of the greatest tragedies in their nation's history.

Unlike other Serbian monasteries, this one was built in the Romantic style, under the authority of grand master Vita from Kotor.

Composer and musicologist Stevan Stojanović Mokranjac is considered one of the most important founders of modern Serbian music.

The 1972 Yugoslav Partisan film Valter brani Sarajevo ( Walter Defends Sarajevo ) starring Serbian actor Bata Živojinović is one of the most-watched war films of all time, owing mainly to audiences in the People's Republic of China.

Local Serbs have erected one of the most prominent monuments in central Trieste: the Serbian Orthodox Church of Saint Spyridon ( 1854 ).

With the rule of the Ottoman Empire after 1450, the Ottoman as well as the Austro-Hungarian terms exchanged the Serbian one.

In January 1914, the Serbian prime minister Nikola Pasic delivered a letter to Tsar Nicholas in which King Peter expressed a desire for his son to marry one of the Grand Duchesses.

Charles Emmanuel was one of the most wanted candidates for the crown of a restored Serbian Kingdom, hypothetically presumed after a Christian crusade against the Ottoman Empire during the plannings of the Great Conspiracy of the late 16th and early 17th centuries under the auspices of Serb Patriarch John II Cantul, Herzegovinian Duke Grdan and other chiefs of the Serb clans.

Before 1400, most Serbian vernaculars had two accents, both with fall intonation — the short one and the long one.

Lauper took a role and wrote a song for the Serbian movie Here and There, which stars her husband, David Thornton, in one of the main roles.

Consequently, the Serbian principalities that were not already Ottoman vassals, one after the other became so in the following years.

The killer is not named, but it was one of 12 Serbian noblemen who managed to break through the Ottoman lines:

Consequently, the Serbian principalities that were not already Ottoman vassals, one after the other became so in the following years.

The killer is not named but he is described as one of twelve Serbian noblemen who managed to break through the Ottoman ranks:

For these activities, Ahmeti was arrested and imprisoned for one year by the Serbian and Yugoslav authorities.

Still others point out that before the bombing, rather than being an unusually bloody conflict, the war between the KLA and the Yugoslav security forces had in fact been one of the cleanest civil wars in modern history, the number of dead being less than 2000, which included around 500 Serbian civilians and police and 1500 Albanian civilians and KLA members in more than one year of conflict.